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Authorities Still Searching for Missing Florida Girl

Aired May 10, 2002 - 14:28   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: DNA testing showing no match between a missing 5-year-old girl from Florida and a child's body found in Missouri. Meanwhile, Miami police say the missing girl's caretakers showing deception in polygraph test.

Susan Candiotti tracking all these developments now, again in Miami.

Susan, good afternoon.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Bill.

Suggesting that Miami Dade police may be trying to stir things up in this case, they decided to -- at least the chief did -- decided to disclose at least the partial results of some lie detector tests that had been given to the two women who have been taking care of missing 5-year-old little girl Rilya Wilson.

They said that the woman who describes herself as the paternal grandmother and her sister showed some deception in parts of the test. Specifically, the area in which they showed deception did not have any great significance, they say, to the part of investigation dealing with the missing girl's whereabouts.

Now, the grandmother says that on or about January 2001, that a social worker came by her house, to pick up the little girl to take her away for tests. And that's the last time she says she saw the little girl. Police stress that the grandmother and her sister are not considered suspects at this time, although no one has been eliminated from suspicion in this case.

Now, the attorney representing this woman had this to say about those results.

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ED SHOHAT, ATTORNEY FOR GERALYN GRAHAM: From our side, we view it as a completely positive result. We want that child back. We want her found alive. And there is no evidence at all that there's been any death of this child.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CANDIOTTI: Now, Mr. Edward Shohat, who represents the grandmother, is also specifically talking about the fact that there has been no DNA match between missing Rilya Wilson and the body of an unidentified little girl who was found in Kansas City, Missouri in April of 2001, a few months after Rilya became missing.

Now, authorities there explain how they feel about the significance of the fact that there is no DNA match.

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DAVE BERNARD, DETECTIVE: The investigation still goes on. We have leads. A lot of leads have come in since the one-year anniversary. A lot of leads have some substance to them, things we can actually go out and investigate.

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CANDIOTTI: So on one hand regarding the DNA results, the family of Rilya Wilson here in Miami is encouraged by the fact that there is no match because the little girl could still be alive. On the other hand, police in Kansas City, Missouri still now have no identification on a little girl who was murdered there in April of 2001 -- Bill.

HEMMER: That story deepens again today. Susan, thanks. Susan Candiotti in Miami.

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